Benefit For The Living Dead

Imprisoned on an unfair charge of fraud, a mild-mannered Jordanian contractor discovers that prison has its own rhythms, rules, and economies — and he soon begins to carve out a position for himself in this place where fraud isn’t a crime so much as a way of life.

A songwriter, while struggling to write his next album, is visited by an unlikely character that helps him continue.

David has a woman he loves, two lovely young children, a band of friends with whom they go on holiday. But on his return from a stay in the Vosges, he is interrogated by the police in connection with an investigation into a murder. Quickly, it is established that David, under irreproachable looks, does not have a life as smooth as what he claims. Despite the support of his best friend, Noël, and his lawyer, Marco, the doubt spreads.

From the earliest point when I started to make film one of the biggest influence on my way of thinking came from Franz Kafka. In particular the titles ‘Castle One’ and ‘Castle Two’ made symbolic reference to Kafka’s book ‘The Castle’. In this book, like ‘The Trial’ the central fictitious but ‘first-person’ existential character was ‘K’ – clearly in part an oblique but intentional reference to Kafka’s own name. The short video sequence used in ‘For the Benefit of Mr. K’, was shot in the little street in Prague showing the small house in which Kafka wrote ‘The Trial’. The title is also a direct reference to the song by the Beatles. The sound track is a short sequence discovered by my son of the Beatles rehearsing this song in the Abbey Road recording studio.

A re-tooling of 'Night of the Living Dead' designed to generate royalties for the "survivor's" who are responsible for the creation of the 1968 film.

May 2017. Forget tour. St. Petersbourg. Xiu XIu.

Roger Waters My Morning jacket John Mayer Joe Walsh Dierks Bentley Eric Church Gregg Allman Bruce Hornsby Ray LaMontagne John Hiatt Grace Potter Warren Haynes Lucinda Williams Mavis Staples Allan Toussaint Robert Randolph John Prine Jorma Kaukonen Marc Cohn The Levon Helm Band

Nicky has just graduated with a degree in the arts. He asks his friend Koi to be the model for a photoshoot, where she has to wear a costume that won’t show her face. Later, while having dinner together, they talk about their relationship, jobs and among others about the beginning of #MeToo.

Life in art based on the plays of A. Ostrovsky: "Talents and Admirers", "Forest", etc.

Saldivar is being blackmailed by employee Godinez, who knows his dark secret. He will try everything to end the extortion.

Milana and Gena are doing well: a child, a home, realization in creativity… However, Milana does not believe in herself and connects her musical career with the fact that she is the wife of the people's favorite "Uncle Gena", who constantly tours the country. After performing at a festival in one of the provincial cities, Milana's father Albert Plekhov comes backstage. He is a director at a local theater, a rather eccentric, out-of-date, but very perky man of age. For the last 20 years, he has been trying to stage his musical The Scarlet Flower.

During an electro party, Antoine isolates himself in a vast living room. He is visited by four people; friends, confidants, chimeras - visions. Throughout their exchanges, tinted with their clumsiness and their tenderness, we might be witnessing the last twenty minutes of this young man’s life.

A boy finds a kaleidoscope on the street and uses it as an opportunity to charge bystanders to look through it.